Fleetwood Mac’s best-loved album Rumours has sold 40million copies worldwide, and the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Tickets for the event next year have sold out in October in one hour and 40 minutes, a record time according to organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.

They released a joint statement online, saying: ‘We would like to say an enormous thanks to everyone who managed to buy a ticket – but we’d also like to extend our sincere apologies to the many thousands who missed out.’

Glastonbury 2013 will be held between June 26 and June 30, with the line-up yet to be officially announced.